The term originated in the late 17th century in reference to a dormant state in insect eggs and plants, and was applied to other animals beginning in the 18th century. Today, many types of mammals ...

First, a note on the lingo. While people often use the term loosely to refer to any state of dormancy in animals, true hibernation is a pretty specific thing characterized by “profound ...

Picture an Antarctic animal and most people think of penguins, but there is a flightless midge, the only known insect native ...

Nearly all snakes will experience some form of brumation (hibernation for cold-blooded animals), though the length of dormancy depends on location. For instance, a snake in Minnesota might ...

In our research we focus on a particular kind of dormancy in animals called diapause, in which organisms reduce their metabolic activity and resist changes in environmental conditions. Here ...

As October wanes, animals are faced with several choices. Well, not really choices, because they are determined by biology, honed over millions of years. There are two types of dormancy in ...

"There are examples of animals entering into a reversible and ... cancer cells utilize this same autophagy mechanism to enter a dormant state and evade destruction from chemotherapy.

Also, dormant cancer cells are often in slow-metabolism mode, like hibernating animals. So even some sophisticated diagnostic techniques, such as PET scans, often overlook dormant tumours.

The evolutionary biology technique involves reviving dormant organisms from lake sediments to study animals as they existed at the time they were buried in the sediment. The visible algae was able ...

It is possible to isolate new dormant stem cells from the transplanted animals and these cells are able to replace bone marrow again – this can be done several times in a row. The situation is ...